Apparatus for feeding or delivering biscuits for packing.



No. 663,627. Patented Dec. ll, I900. G. HERBERT, In. APPARATUS FOR FEEDING-0R DELIVERING BISCUITS FOR PACKING.

(Application filed Sept. 15, 1900.)

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GEORGE HERBERT, JR., or eLAseow, SCOTLAND.

APPARATUS FOR FEEDING OR DELIVERING BISCUITS FOR PACKING.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 663,627, dated December 11, 1900.

Application filed September 15, 1900. Serial No. 30,140. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE HERBERT, Jr., a citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Kingston Biscuit Factory, Kinning street, Kingston, Glasgow, Scotland, have invented a certain new and useful Apparatus for Feeding or Delivering Biscuits for Packing, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to apparatus for feeding forward biscuits from a table on which they are laid flat and delivering them on edge and all facing one way into a trough-like receptacle, so that any number of them may be lifted out and packed without the necessity of being arranged by hand, the invention being a development of that described in the specification of my United States Patent No. 657,657, but being also applicable in conjunction with other biscuit-arranging machines, and the object of the invention being to adapt apparatus of the kind referred to for dealing with square or rectangular or similarly-shaped biscuits with the same positiveness as with round or oval-shaped biscuits.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of the main portion of the apparatus for feeding or delivering the hiscuits into the trough-like receptacles and showing the improvement applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1, but showing the oscillating table in a different position. Figs. 3 to 6 are views of modified forms of the biscuit-retaining device employed in dealing with square or rectangular or similarly-shaped biscuits.

As described in the specification of my United States Patent No. 657,657 above referred to, a traveling band A is employed to convey the biscuits from the table, on which they are laid flat, to a series of hollow chutes C in an inclined table 0, down which chutes O the biscuits slide and are permitted to escape, one or a series of'superimposed biscuits at a time, through movable catches D, forming the lower ends of the side rails O of the chutes 0 the biscuits freed from each chute C being retained by lower catches I and eventually freed therefrom and delivered into the position shown at Fig. 1, in which the biscuits rest in the trough K, as shown at Fig.

1. A piston L, set at an angle to the vertical, is then in the cycle of operation of the apparatus caused to travel forward as the table 0 rises and pushes the biscuit or biscuits while still lying flat, or nearly so, along the trough; but when'the foremost edge of the biscuit comes in contact with the alreadyformed row of biscuits the resistance created causes the piston to make the biscuit rise from its approximately horizontal position into one approaching the vertical, or at least into the same angle as that of the piston-face. The troughs K are each preferably formed with a slightly-curved bottom; but they may be' flat.

In order that the biscuits after withdrawal of the pistons L may not fall flat on the bottoms of the troughs,and consequently prevent the succeeding biscuits being delivered in the proper manner, I provide according to my presentinvention aseries of retaining-catches Q, strung upon a transverse rod or rods R,

carried above the troughs K, as shown at Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, the catches Q being preferably arranged in pairs, one pair for each trough, and being adapted to move in one direction under the action of the forwardlynioving biscuits and to drop down or spring in behind the biscuits immediately the biscuits have cleared these catches Q, so as to retain the biscuits in an approximately vertical position, thus preventing the falling of these and their consequent obstruction to the proper delivery of the succeeding biscuits, such a contingency being impossible when dealing with round or oval-shaped biscuits in a trough having a curved bottom. This biscuit-retaining device Q may assume various forms, such as any one of the forms shown in the drawings, these catches being pivoted 'eitherbehind their retaining armsas shown at Figs.1and2,orin frontof them,as at Fig.3,and in both cases being located above the trough, or the catches may be located in the sides of the trough, as at Fig. 6, or the catches instead of being pivoted transversely of the troughs may be pivoted longitudinally, as shown at Fi g. 5,or they may be arranged to be displaced in a straight line vertically, as shown at Fig. 4, or at an inclination. In each case the piston has that portion of its edge in proximity to the retaining-catches suitably for|nedas or sliding catches adapted to yieldi onedirection under the action of the biscuit and to spring in behind the biscuit after the latter has passed and prevent said biscuit falling flat upon the bottom of the trough, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my 20 hand in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE HERBERT, JUNIOR.

Witnesses:

WVALLAcE FAIRWEATHER, J NO. ARMSTRONG, Jr. 

